Best of 2018: Leftovers Edition

I know our original list was pretty comprehensive, but we’re not finished yet. Here is some more good shit from 2018 that you may have missed, some of which we forgot entirely. Additionally, some of these aren’t necessarily mathcore*, just some good music we liked that came out last year, OK? Alright then.

*we here at Mathcore Index like to keep it eclectic, so brace yourself if you’re expecting absolutely no crossover.

ZOICC’s lineup splintered briefly into ZOICCULT earlier in the year (since then becoming Cruel World Collective), and in the shuffle we totally forgot about these exceptional 4 tracks of mathcore in the vein of The Number Twelve Looks Like You and The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Pennyslvania’s Bandit managed to squeeze this one at this last second, and it’s 6 short tracks of filthy grind and hardcore that would make Pig Destroyer blush, and you can blast through in less 5 minutes, so there’s really no excuse to not listen to this.

Whoops. This was a totally obvious one if you follow Deathwish Inc’s output. A really fun post-hardcore album that for me recalls early At the Drive-In, Drive Like Jehu, The Jesus Lizard, and (apparently) The Pixies.

This didn’t hit me the right way the first time, but the more I listen the more I began to like it. I enjoyed this for the same reasons as The Armed’s new record, with its electro-metal / cybergrind sound a la Genghis Tron and Cutting Pink With Knives mixed with Blood Brothers and..idk, no wave? Shit is wild.